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ENGL 423 - Ethnic American Women’s Literature After 1900

1.  Demonstrate (a) an ability to analyze selected passages from literary texts and (b) an ability to use such analyses both to illuminate and complicate a reading of the texts in which these passages occur.
2.  Take various critical approaches to fiction, literary nonfiction, drama, and/or poetry by ethnic American women writers.
3.  Understand the historical and social contexts affecting cultural production of American literature, and the relationships between gender, class, race, and ethnicity within and between ethnic groups and dominant society.
4.  Achieve a working knowledge of the histories, traditions, heterogeneity, and intersections of various ethnic groups in the U.S. as they are manifested in literature by women.
5.  Express their interpretations in cogent, well-organized prose (which may involve drafting, revision, finding library resources, compiling bibliographies, applying research).

1. Demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply principles, methodologies, values systems, and thought processes employed in the arts and humanities.
2. Analyze cultural production as an expression of, or reflection upon, what it means to be human.
3. Demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts or humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.

 
Diversity Overlay Learning Outcomes
 

1. Describe the histories, experiences or views of one or more cultural groups.
2. Analyze the overlap or intersection of social identities of oneself and/or other cultural groups (e.g., culture, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, and/or age).
3. Examine the impact of their own identity on their experiences with and/or views of other cultural groups.